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Hatari is an Atari ST and STE emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X andother systems that are supported by the SDL library. The Atari ST was a16/32 bit computer system which was first released by Atari in 1985. Usingthe Motorola 68000 CPU, it was a very popular computer having quite a lotof CPU power at that time.

Unlike many other Atari ST emulators which try to give you a goodenvironment for running GEM applications, Hatari tries to emulate thehardware of a ST as close as possible so that it is able to run mostof the old ST games and demos.

Hatari is open source software and is distributed under the terms of theGNU General Public License (GPL). The SF project page is available at:http://sourceforge.net/projects/hatari/

Before you can actually run the emulator, you also need a TOS imagefile. TOS is the built-in operating system of the Atari 16/32 bitcomputers. Since it is not possible to ship one of these image fileswith Hatari, you either have to create your own image from your Atarior you have to use EmuTOS, a free TOS replacement.

It's also possible to download the ROM images from the net. See thepackage hatari_tos_roms, also on slackbuilds.org.

EmuTOS is included in this package, so you can run at least some STapplications without installing the real ROMs, but not many programswork with EmuTOS (especially not games).